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Codpiece

noun
1.
(15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches.





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"Codpiece" Quotes from Famous Books



... wenches' song that he would not stir his pettitoes till he had both tune and words; which so drew the rest of the herd to me that all their other senses stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket,—it was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a purse; I would have filed keys off that hung in chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song, and admiring the nothing of it. So that, in this time of lethargy, I picked and cut most of their festival purses; and had not the old man come in with whoobub against his daughter and ...
— The Winter's Tale - [Collins Edition] • William Shakespeare


Words linked to "Codpiece" :   knee breeches, knickerbockers, breeches, knee pants, knickers, flap


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